nextui VS shadcn/ui

Next, we install the dependencies, but this time we’ll add @nextui and framer-motion:

Use NextUI Components Since we're using NextUI, you can refer to the following documentation to get started with its components and features: Getting started with NextUI

16. Next UI

NextUI: Craft beautiful interfaces effortlessly with NextUI

NextUI

Something like NextUI would work, i.e. a “New Gen” UI framework. It’s Tailwind based AND it works in both .astro and .tsx files. Amazing!

Official Website: https://nextui.org/

NOTE: NextUI cards are used here to aid with UX.

Next js+ Next UI

In case anyone finds this who is also interested: I just stumbled upon an implementation of shadcn/ui components with css modules that looks pretty solid: https://github.com/qwalker8408/shadcn-css/tree/main

Hopefully something like this will be made official - at least there is some discussion going on in the shadcn/ui repo: https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui/discussions/2832

shadcn/ui

For this project, I used PureScript + React + Tailwind css + shadcn/ui components. I assume you’ve heard of the first two (if not, see PureScript overview). The other two are blessings for the copy-paste-driven development.

The frontend of Zentrox is written using React. Of course I did not write this frontend without any frameworks. I use Next.JS by Vercel as a framework. Zentrox also uses a UI library called shadcn. Shadcn is an amazing library. It made devloping frontend a lot easier when you do not have to build everything from the ground up. I'd also like to give some credit to Radix UI, as this is what Shadcn uses for its components. :-)

I used Tailwind CSS for the styling because it's fast and easy to use, after a second thought I decided to use shadcn/ui so I did not have to build the components from scratch.

We started migrating some of our internal tools to https://ui.shadcn.com/ . We did not want to reinvent the wheel because it would take too effort (and we did try a couple times and failed).

If you're familiar with shadcn/ui (and if you're not, you should check it out!), you'll get what I'm going for here. asterisk/ui also follows the same core idea of providing open source, beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps, only in this case, the components are animations instead of styled primitives. It's all about making your life easier and your projects prettier.

Today, let's take a deeper look at two of the top contenders: Radix UI and ShadCN. Both these libraries have something different to bring to the table, and by the end of this post, you'll have a clearer idea of which might best be suited for your next project.

Living in the web development world, it may just feel like digging for treasure until you find your tools. If you're just starting now, well, you're in luck because Shadcn is packed full of awesome components that can make life so much easier.

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